If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"
~Lemony Snicket

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
~Oscar Wilde

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
~Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

an optimist is a guythat has never hadmuch experience.
~Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel, 1927

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.
~Author Unknown

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com